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  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

agencies, now they are delegating sales, distribution strategy, pricing, and product development to CMOs, who often lack overarching strategic responsibility. CEOs expect their CMOs to drive marketing decisions, but no one is singularly View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

potential efficiency loss associated with strategy-proofness and stability, and direct attention to some open questions. Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author: Sharon P. Katz Periodical: The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

electoral participation. Negative shocks to income and rates of employment are also associated with increases in closure activity within counties over time. We interpret these results as consistent with involuntary consumer account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

  • 13 Sep 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

  • 2013
  • Working Paper

FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu
We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details
Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth
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  • 18 Apr 2022
  • HBS Case

Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

necessarily take the dramatic steps Stack and his colleagues took to rid their firm of most, though not all, gun sales. But Riedel, who teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) at HBS, says business leaders can still learn... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical decentralization have gained mainstream consideration, giving rise to a need for new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang March 2025 | Article | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Many organizations struggle to attract a... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Crashes and Collateralized Lending

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

both clarity and caution. While leaders have fallen back on the “business case” for hiring and promoting employees from historically marginalized groups, this rationale can trigger resistance, backlash, and biases, particularly among... View Details
Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
  • 09 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

or other macroeconomic factors. With these factors in mind, here are four things to focus on in 2024: Balancing margins and volume. For decisions about whether to adjust prices, it is not simply a question of how high prices can go, but... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global

Corporation: Bridging Content and Commerce By: Jung Koo Kang , Panje Jayden Kim and David Allen This accounting case is intended to teach students how to compile an income statement, a balance sheet, and a cash flow statement. It focuses... View Details
  • Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

environments.” If central banks had used economic models that account for variations in the speed of firm’s pricing decisions rather than their traditional forecasting tools, policymakers might have detected rising inflation sooner,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. They find that leverage is inversely related to asset beta,... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50817 December 2016 Harvard Law Review Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne